Compassion International (Taiwan) - humanitarian non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

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 helping needy children in Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

 and aboriginal communities of Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

. Founded in 1995 and based in Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

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It declares its mission to devote itself to converge support from general public to ensure the underprivileged areas to achieve the world highest humanity development level.

Activities

• Improve living environment of people
• Provide medical services and resources
• Scholarships and financial aid for elementary school
  Elementary school
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   and high school
  High school
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   children
• Subsidies for the poor
• Reconstruction of aboriginal
  Taiwanese aborigines
  Taiwanese aborigines is the term commonly applied in reference to the indigenous peoples of Taiwan. Although Taiwanese indigenous groups hold a variety of creation myths, recent research suggests their ancestors may have been living on the islands for approximately 8,000 years before major Han...
  
   communities in Taiwan
• Disaster relief
• Follow-up services for children that have received financial aid.

The operations in Vietnam are mainly concentrated on the central part of the country, where international assistance was usually non-sufficient. In 2005, Compassion Intarnational spent 300,000 USD on its projects in Vietnam.

External links

This article is related to the List of non-governmental organizations in Vietnam.